Image source: The Motley Fool. Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 at 8 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS Chief Executive Officer — David Lukes Chief Financial Officer — Conor Fennerty Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Acquisitions -- Nearly $800 million of assets acquired in 2025, through a mix of portfolio and single-asset deals. -- Nearly $800 million of assets acquired in 202...
Image source: The Motley Fool. Monday, Feb. 9, 2026 at 8 a.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS Chief Executive Officer — David Lukes Chief Financial Officer — Conor Fennerty Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Acquisitions -- Nearly $800 million of assets acquired in 2025, through a mix of portfolio and single-asset deals. -- Nearly $800 million of assets acquired in 2025, through a mix of portfolio and single-asset deals. Lease spreads -- New leases signed at an average spread of 20%, and renewals at just under 10%. -- New leases signed at an average spread of 20%, and renewals at just under 10%. Same property NOI growth -- Full-year same property NOI increased 3.3% after 5.8% growth the prior year. -- Full-year same property NOI increased 3.3% after 5.8% growth the prior year. Portfolio size -- Property holdings reached nearly 5 million square feet, with significant runway in a 950 million square foot U.S. addressable market. -- Property holdings reached nearly 5 million square feet, with significant runway in a 950 million square foot U.S. addressable market. Leasing activity -- 67 new leases completed during the year; 64 involved unique tenants, with 70% being national credit operators. -- 67 new leases completed during the year; 64 involved unique tenants, with 70% being national credit operators. Diversification -- Only nine tenants contribute more than 1% of base rent, and only one tenant contributes more than 2%. -- Only nine tenants contribute more than 1% of base rent, and only one tenant contributes more than 2%. NOI growth -- Quarterly NOI rose 16% sequentially and almost 60% year over year, driven by acquisitions and organic expansion. -- Quarterly NOI rose 16% sequentially and almost 60% year over year, driven by acquisitions and organic expansion. Lease rate -- Remained steady at 96.7%, with occupancy improving by 20 basis points quarter over quarter. -- Remained steady at 96.7%, with occupancy improving by 20 basis points q...
Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid Unfiltered on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. From a hustling entrepreneur to trying to reinvent his claim to fame in the era of AI. This is where we find Ring doorbell chief inventor Jamie Siminoff less than two months into 2026 as he settles back into a leadership role inside Amazon. "What I've been ...
Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid Unfiltered on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. From a hustling entrepreneur to trying to reinvent his claim to fame in the era of AI. This is where we find Ring doorbell chief inventor Jamie Siminoff less than two months into 2026 as he settles back into a leadership role inside Amazon. "What I've been working on is how AI can become what I call an intelligent assistant and applying that to Ring," Siminoff told me in a new episode of Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid Unfiltered podcast (video above; listen in below). "We're working on a lot right now. I feel like I'm also back to startup mode." This success story began out of Siminoff's garage with a product he called Doorbot. He pitched Doorbot on Shark Tank in 2013, seeking $700,000 for a 10% stake. Surprisingly, he walked away empty-handed after all investors rejected the opportunity—a decision Kevin 'Mr. Wonderful' O'Leary later called one of Shark Tank's biggest misses. Siminoff went on to rename the product Ring, turning it into one of the most ubiquitous consumer products for the home. He sold the business to tech giant Amazon (AMZN) in 2018 for $1.15 billion. Ring has since developed a host of connected security products from floodlights to new iterations of its iconic connected doorbell. Siminoff left Amazon in 2023, only to return in early 2025 to lead its suite of security products. He says he is tasked with taking the connected security platform to new heights by tapping into the power of AI, while driving a more efficient business. "With AI I would not be surprised if in the next year, two, or three with what we're doing that we're able to really impact those things like porch piracy. They're really hard because you need someone to sort of watch the camera all the time ... With AI being your intelligent assistant, if it was watching it would know what to say, what to do, what package is yours, who's coming up. And,...
Ondas ( Nasdaq: ONDS ) on Monday said its smart demining subsidiary, 4M Defense, has been awarded a multi-year demining program in Israel valued at more than $30 million. The project, to be carried out along the Israel-Syria border, will cover about 741 acres and is among the largest land-clearance efforts undertaken in the country, the company said. Ondas said the initial execution period is up t...
Ondas ( Nasdaq: ONDS ) on Monday said its smart demining subsidiary, 4M Defense, has been awarded a multi-year demining program in Israel valued at more than $30 million. The project, to be carried out along the Israel-Syria border, will cover about 741 acres and is among the largest land-clearance efforts undertaken in the country, the company said. Ondas said the initial execution period is up to three years, with options for extensions and scope expansion. The program will use autonomous aerial and ground robotic systems and intelligence tools to support land clearance in a historically contaminated border region. The company said the contract supports its strategy to expand autonomous and land-intelligence capabilities across border security and post-conflict operations. ONDS +1.96% premarket to $9.88. Source: Press Release More on Ondas Holdings The Ondas Transition Few Notice Ondas Inc. (ONDS) Ondas Holdings Inc. - Analyst/Investor Day - Slideshow Ondas Holdings Inc. (ONDS) Analyst/Investor Day Transcript Ondas trades higher after raising revenue estimate Dassault leads $200M bet on AI-driven combat drones
Dougal Waters/DigitalVision via Getty Images A little over a year ago, I believed that the appeal was luring in the case of Nordson Corp. ( NDSN ), with the premium valuation multiple disappearing. The long-term growth compounder had seen a muted performance at the time, yet the diversified business and strong track record made me start to get compelled by the shares, as the premium valuation disa...
Dougal Waters/DigitalVision via Getty Images A little over a year ago, I believed that the appeal was luring in the case of Nordson Corp. ( NDSN ), with the premium valuation multiple disappearing. The long-term growth compounder had seen a muted performance at the time, yet the diversified business and strong track record made me start to get compelled by the shares, as the premium valuation disappeared. A year forward, shares have risen by nearly 50% as the valuation re-rating has been substantial, after a return to low-single-digit organic growth, with green shoots aggressively being priced in here. An Industrial Growth Compounder Nordson is a growth compounder with unique competitive advantages. Founded back in 1954, the company has grown to a $2.8 billion revenue base, with these being very profitable operations with EBITDA margins reported near a third of sales. With some 8,000 employees, the company has a presence in about 35 countries across the globe. The company has an incredibly strong track record, supported by more than 2,000 patents, with the dividend being hiked for 62 years in a row. The company mostly provides parts and consumables, which is a truly global business. The company is rather diversified, with both electronic and medical segments making up about a quarter of sales. Specific end markets include semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, automotive electronics, balloons, catheters, single-use fittings, and related equipment. Other end markets include consumable non-durables, such as diapers, beverage straws, and bottle labeling, with smaller end markets including various industrial and other settings. Active in a wide range of county and industry sectors, the business is organized across three divisions. The largest of these is the industrial precision solutions, which make up half of sales. This is followed by medical fluid solutions, which make up 30% of sales, with advanced technology solutions comprising the remainder of sales. O...
Performance Food Group (NYSE: PFGC ) said on Monday that its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Performance Food Group, intends to offer $1.06B of senior notes due 2034. PFG plans to use the net proceeds along with borrowings under its revolving credit facility to redeem all the issuer’s outstanding 5.500% senior notes due 2027. The notes will be guaranteed by PFGC, the issuer’s parent, and its exi...
Performance Food Group (NYSE: PFGC ) said on Monday that its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, Performance Food Group, intends to offer $1.06B of senior notes due 2034. PFG plans to use the net proceeds along with borrowings under its revolving credit facility to redeem all the issuer’s outstanding 5.500% senior notes due 2027. The notes will be guaranteed by PFGC, the issuer’s parent, and its existing and future material wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries. Shares +4.75%. More on Performance Food Group Performance Food Group Company (PFGC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Performance Food Group: Shares Have Potential, But They Aren't Cheap Enough Yet Performance Food Group signals $73B–$75B sales target by 2028 as CEO transition shapes M&A, margin strategies Performance Food Group misses Q2 estimates Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Performance Food Group
(RTTNews) - Stocks saw a significant advance during last Friday's session but are likely to show a lack of direction in early trading on Monday. The major index futures are currently pointing to a roughly flat open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures down by less than a tenth of a percent. Traders may take a step back to assess the recent volatility in the markets, which saw a tech-led swoon...
(RTTNews) - Stocks saw a significant advance during last Friday's session but are likely to show a lack of direction in early trading on Monday. The major index futures are currently pointing to a roughly flat open for the markets, with the S&P 500 futures down by less than a tenth of a percent. Traders may take a step back to assess the recent volatility in the markets, which saw a tech-led swoon in the middle of last week before the notable rebound seen on Friday. A lack of major U.S. economic data may also keep some traders on the sidelines ahead of the release of several key reports in the coming days. The Labor Department's closely watched monthly jobs report, which was delayed due to the brief government shutdown last week, is likely to be in the spotlight. The report is expected to show employment climbed by 70,000 jobs in January after rising by 50,000 jobs in December, while the unemployment rate is expected to hold at 4.4 percent. Reports on retail sales and consumer price inflation are also likely to attract attention, as the data could impact the outlook for interest rates. After moving sharply lower over the past few sessions, stocks showed a substantial move back to the upside during trading on Friday. The major averages all showed substantial upward moves, with the Dow closing above 50,000 for the first time. The major averages reached new highs late in the session before giving back some ground going into the end of the day. The Dow soared 1,206.95 points or 2.5 percent to 50,115.67, the Nasdaq surged 490.63 points or 2.2 percent to 23,031.21 and the S&P 500 jumped 133.90 points or 2.0 percent to 6,932.30. For the week, the Dow shot up by 2.5 percent, while the S&P 500 edged down by 0.1 percent and the Nasdaq slumped by 1.8 percent. In overseas trading, stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region moved sharply higher during trading on Monday. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index surged by 3.9 percent, while South Korea's Kospi spiked by 4.1 percent. Meanwhile, ...
Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CAEVES Technology, Inc. today announced the availability of CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ in the Micro...
Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CAEVES Technology, Inc. today announced the availability of CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ in the Microsoft Marketplace, the unified online destination for customers to buy trusted cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet their business needs. CAEVES customers can now discover and deploy trusted solutions through Microsoft Marketplace, with smooth integration and streamlined management across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products. CAEVES Logo CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ is a software-defined deep storage solution designed to help enterprises modernize archive and unstructured data within their own Microsoft Azure environments. The solution enables policy-driven data tiering to Azure object storage while maintaining secure, transparent access for enterprise workloads, compliance requirements, and AI-enabled discovery. Through integration with Microsoft 365 search and Microsoft 365 Copilot , organizations can securely extend historical data into modern search and AI workflows while maintaining existing identity, security, and governance controls. "Availability in Microsoft Marketplace marks an important milestone for CAEVES and our customers," said Jaap van Duijvenbode, Head of Products & Customer Experience at CAEVES Technology, Inc. "Organizations are looking for practical ways to reduce archive storage costs while making more data accessible for search, analytics, and AI. CAEVES delivers a solution that works natively within Microsoft Azure and extends archive data into Microsoft 365 search and Copilot without disrupting existing operations." "Microsoft Marketplace helps organizations and partners move faster, work smarter, and grow by connecting them with t...
Rivian stock is back on sale. Towards the end of 2025, I consistently argued that Rivian Automotive (RIVN +7.79%) stock was undervalued. In fact, I called the company my best investment idea for 2026. Shortly afterwards, the stock spiked nearly 80% in value, zooming from $12.50 per share to $22.50 per share. Since those highs, however, shares have slumped back toward their pre-spike price levels -...
Rivian stock is back on sale. Towards the end of 2025, I consistently argued that Rivian Automotive (RIVN +7.79%) stock was undervalued. In fact, I called the company my best investment idea for 2026. Shortly afterwards, the stock spiked nearly 80% in value, zooming from $12.50 per share to $22.50 per share. Since those highs, however, shares have slumped back toward their pre-spike price levels -- and off some 33% from their December highs. With shares now priced below $15, there are two reasons why investors should consider picking up more Rivian stock now. 1. Expect major sales growth in 2026 Much of Rivian's price spike late last year related to the company's newfound position as an artificial intelligence (AI) stock. The company announced in December that it would be staging an aggressive push into self-driving technology. The company outlined a roadmap to achieving full autonomous driving in all its vehicles, a feat supported by the pending manufacture of in-house silicon chips and a next-gen computer. Both of those initiatives are expected to arrive in 2026. Artificial intelligence and self-driving initiatives are huge potential growth drivers. But there's a more near-term growth driver I am keeping my eye on: the imminent launch of Rivian's newest model, the R2. Priced at just $45,000, the R2 finally adds a budget-friendly option to Rivian's lineup. Right now, Rivian only has two models available to purchase -- the R1T and R1S -- both of which can easily cost $100,000 or more depending on options and fees. With most Americans looking to spend less than $50,000 on their next vehicle purchase, Rivian will soon be able to tap into tens of millions of new potential buyers. Rivian's sales are expected to jump to 27% in 2026 versus a 2025 growth rate of just 8%. Expand NASDAQ : RIVN Rivian Automotive Today's Change ( 7.79 %) $ 1.07 Current Price $ 14.80 Key Data Points Market Cap $18B Day's Range $ 13.82 - $ 14.99 52wk Range $ 10.36 - $ 22.69 Volume 633K Avg Vol 4...
Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor, a definitive force behind the highlife genre, has died age 90. His son Kweku Taylor announced the news on Sunday: “The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music. Ebo Taylor passed away yesterday; a day after the launch of Ebo Taylor music festival and exactly a month after his 90th birthday, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will n...
Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor, a definitive force behind the highlife genre, has died age 90. His son Kweku Taylor announced the news on Sunday: “The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music. Ebo Taylor passed away yesterday; a day after the launch of Ebo Taylor music festival and exactly a month after his 90th birthday, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.” A spokesperson for the Ghanaian president told the BBC’s Newsday programme that Taylor would “be remembered as one of our greatest musicians ever ... a man who strove to put Ghanaian music on the global map at a time when other genres of music were prominent”. A recent interview on the music website Passion of the Weiss hailed Taylor as “the greatest rhythm guitarist in history … with complete originality, he incorporated the diverse rhythmic traditions of the Ga, Ewe, Dagomba and his own Akan people into his compositions.” Taylor was born Deroy Taylor on Ghana’s Cape Coast on 6 January 1936. He started playing piano at the age of six, his tastes shaped by American and English music, in part as a result of Ghana being a British colony at the time. Growing up during the blossoming of highlife, he switched to guitar while he was at college, and subsequently joined the Stargazers – whose members Teddy Osei and Sol Amarfio would later form the UK-based Afro-rock band Osibisa – and a succession of other bands. He became known for his rare embrace of both highlife – largely played in a major mode – and Afrobeat, which hews to minor modes. View image in fullscreen Taylor at the 2011 Womad festival. Photograph: C Brandon/Redferns At the Eric Gilder School of Music in London in the early 1960s, Taylor studied Dvořák and cited the complexity of the Czech composer’s music as an influence on his own. But he also said that he learned more outside of the classroom, by sitting in with bands and attending jazz and highlife jams, and meeting acts including the Beatles and the Ro...
Guido Mieth/DigitalVision via Getty Images Back in late November of last year, I made the decision to upgrade shares of Bar Harbor Bankshares ( BHB ) from a ‘hold’ to a ‘buy.’ Leading up to that point, I had noticed deposit growth, improvements in asset quality, and an improved valuation of the company. This followed its acquisition of Guaranty Bancorp, though it was also accompanied by organic de...
Guido Mieth/DigitalVision via Getty Images Back in late November of last year, I made the decision to upgrade shares of Bar Harbor Bankshares ( BHB ) from a ‘hold’ to a ‘buy.’ Leading up to that point, I had noticed deposit growth, improvements in asset quality, and an improved valuation of the company. This followed its acquisition of Guaranty Bancorp, though it was also accompanied by organic deposit gains that contributed positively to its growth. Although there were certain costs involved with the acquisition, the overall picture for the business was looking good. And honestly, upgrading it ended up being a wise idea in retrospect. Since then, the stock has risen by 17.5%. That compares favorably to the 4.2% rise that the S&P 500 saw. This move up can be chalked up to continued expansion when it comes to the income statement and balance sheet. Although asset quality is a bit mixed right now, and even though shares are a bit more expensive than I would like them to be, it's clear that the company has done a fine job. After seeing such a nice move higher, it's tempting to take a more cautious approach to the business. But when you take a step back and look at the bigger picture of what we have here, and factor in certain one-time charges that the company has exhibited, I actually believe that maintaining it as a very soft ‘buy’ candidate is the right choice. Still banking on this prospect From a purely fundamental standpoint, one thing I will say is that Bar Harbor Bankshares has done a good job. Take the final quarter of the 2025 fiscal year as an example. Deposits for the institution amounted to $3.82 billion. That's up nicely from the $3.27 billion the company ended 2024 with. It is important to note, however, that deposits are actually down from the third quarter, when they amounted to $3.95 billion. But according to management, this is largely because of a decline in brokered deposits. These are high cost deposits that are borrowed from other financial instit...
US chip company Astera Labs (Nasdaq: ALAB) has announced that it is opening an advanced R&D center in Israel. The company, which is competing with Nvidia and Broadcom in AI data center infrastructure, will open design centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Israeli semiconductor industry veteran Guy Azrad, SVP engineering and general manager of Astera Labs Israel, will lead the new Israel operations. Until...
US chip company Astera Labs (Nasdaq: ALAB) has announced that it is opening an advanced R&D center in Israel. The company, which is competing with Nvidia and Broadcom in AI data center infrastructure, will open design centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Israeli semiconductor industry veteran Guy Azrad, SVP engineering and general manager of Astera Labs Israel, will lead the new Israel operations. Until six months ago Azrad was Google SVP engineering responsible for developing communications chips at Google Israel. Astera Labs is a growing chip company that is currently traded on Nasdaq with a market cap of $28 billion, after the stock rebounded on Friday and rose 19%. The share price has risen 62% over the past year, due to its revenue doubling every year and its aggressive product launches. Astera Labs also has Israeli connections as one of its early investors is serial chip entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz. Astera Labs competes with Broadcom and Nvidia by developing chips and communication protocols that enable the transfer of data between graphics processors and onto the core processors inside cloud and AI servers. Astera Labs rapid growth has been achieved by working with external customers, most of them cloud companies like Amazon and "Neo Cloud" clouds, which are interested in developing their own AI servers independently of Nvidia, and its rack-scale infrastructure product has become one of its most expensive products. Astera Labs has not entered Israel through the acquisition of a company. In fact, its founders toured Israel looking to buy a local company, as companies like Amazon, Marvel, and Apple have done in the past, but settled instead on hiring the hardware engineers of Pliops, the Israeli data center storage chip company that was once considered a great promise, but failed to launch a successful product to the market. About half of Pliops employees will move to Astra According to estimates, out of about 120 Pliops employees, about 50% will move to Astera, inc...
(RTTNews) - The Canadian market may open higher Monday morning as some strong buying is likely in energy and materials sectors thanks to rising oil and metal prices. However, the mood is likely to remain cautious amid persisting worries about tensions in the Middle East. The Bank of Canada's interest rate decision is due on Wednesday. The central bank is widely expected to reduce its key policy ra...
(RTTNews) - The Canadian market may open higher Monday morning as some strong buying is likely in energy and materials sectors thanks to rising oil and metal prices. However, the mood is likely to remain cautious amid persisting worries about tensions in the Middle East. The Bank of Canada's interest rate decision is due on Wednesday. The central bank is widely expected to reduce its key policy rate by 50 basis points, marking its fourth cut in a row. The Canadian market climbed to a new record high on Friday, rising for a third straight day, thanks to strong gains in materials stocks as metal prices surged to record highs. Continued optimism about interest rate cuts by the Bank of Canada also aided sentiment. The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index, which marched to a new intra-day high at 24,850.15, settled with a gain of 132.06 points or 0.53% at 24,822.54, a new closing high. The index gained nearly 1.5% in the week. Asian stocks turned in a mixed performance on Monday as China's central bank once again cut interest rates and the country's banks slashed borrowing costs to combat the country's stubborn economic slump. Uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, and uncertainty around the U.S. presidential election weighed on stocks. Israel opened up a fresh military assault on Hezbollah's strongholds in Lebanon, a day after a drone exploded next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private home. Israel has already vowed to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack at the start of October. European stocks are notably lower in cautious trade as investors look for directional cues. ECB policymaker Gediminas Simkus said today that rates could get lower than the natural level between 2% and 3%, if a fall in inflation becomes entrenched. In commodities, West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures are up $1.48 or 2.14% at $70.70 a barrel. Gold futures are gaining $19.10 or 0.7% at $2,749.10 an ounce, while Silver futures are up $0.961 or 2.89% at $34.195 an oun...
Hong Kong lawmakers have called for greater scrutiny of flat owners’ proxies attending meetings on building management affairs in response to the government’s proposed legal amendments to combat bid-rigging following the deadly Tai Po blaze last year. During a Legislative Council panel meeting on Monday, Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen said the government was open to advice...
Hong Kong lawmakers have called for greater scrutiny of flat owners’ proxies attending meetings on building management affairs in response to the government’s proposed legal amendments to combat bid-rigging following the deadly Tai Po blaze last year. During a Legislative Council panel meeting on Monday, Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen said the government was open to advice on its initial proposed amendments to the Building Management Ordinance, including capping the number of proxies a person could hold. But lawmaker Chris Ip Ngo-tung said such a restriction on proxy holders might make it difficult to convene a meeting as a bid-rigging syndicate could easily find more people to seek authorisation and owners might only endorse people they trust. Advertisement “The key point is not about the number [of proxies one can hold] but the authenticity of the proxy instruments,” he said. Ip suggested appointing a third party to verify the documents and monitoring the proxy submission process, such as by installing surveillance cameras, so the people involved could be traced. Advertisement Mak said such monitoring would be subject to a housing estate’s resources, but a building’s property management company, which is responsible for helping owners and has their information, could serve as the third party.
In the partnership announced, Amazon Web Services will receive a long-term supply of advanced semiconductor chips and in return may acquire a stake of up to 2.7% in STMirco
In the partnership announced, Amazon Web Services will receive a long-term supply of advanced semiconductor chips and in return may acquire a stake of up to 2.7% in STMirco
Key Stats for Microsoft Stock Past-Week Performance: -7% -7% 52-Week Range: $345 to $555 $345 to $555 Valuation Model Target Price: $624 $624 Implied Upside: 56% Value your favorite stocks like Microsoft with 5 years of analysts’ forecasts using TIKR’s new Valuation Model (It’s free) >>> What Happened? Microsoft Corporation stock fell about 7% over the past week, finishing near $401 per share, as ...
Key Stats for Microsoft Stock Past-Week Performance: -7% -7% 52-Week Range: $345 to $555 $345 to $555 Valuation Model Target Price: $624 $624 Implied Upside: 56% Value your favorite stocks like Microsoft with 5 years of analysts’ forecasts using TIKR’s new Valuation Model (It’s free) >>> What Happened? Microsoft Corporation stock fell about 7% over the past week, finishing near $401 per share, as investors pulled back from large-cap software names amid a broader sell-off in high-valuation technology stocks. The decline reflected near-term sentiment pressure rather than a shift in Microsoft’s fundamentals, with traders reassessing AI-related expectations after strong sector gains. The stock moved lower as investors rotated out of mega-cap growth stocks and took profits in software leaders following recent strength, despite continued demand for Microsoft’s cloud and AI offerings. The move reflected a reset in positioning after a strong run, leaving shares sensitive to follow-through from earnings commentary, analyst updates, and institutional flows. Institutional activity showed mixed but constructive positioning. Mainsail Asset Management raised its Microsoft stake by 30.1%, Montis Financial boosted its position by 34.5%, and Fiduciary Wealth Partners increased its holdings by 165.5%. Ritholtz Wealth Management and Nwam LLC also added shares, with Nwam making Microsoft its largest position, while Houlihan Financial Resource Group trimmed its stake by 66.4%, highlighting selective rebalancing rather than broad selling. Overall institutional ownership remains elevated near 71.1%, supporting long-term confidence. This week’s earnings call added clarity to the outlook, with Microsoft reporting $81.3 billion in revenue, up 17%, and $4.14 in EPS, up 24%, driven by 26% growth in Microsoft Cloud revenue to $51.5 billion. CEO Satya Nadella said, “this quarter, the Microsoft Cloud surpassed $50 billion in revenue for the first time,” reinforcing confidence in AI-led demand eve...